Bright Data Reviews

1. Sam Mitchell

   · Owner at KittenProperties · over 2 years ago
   Mixed feelings

   We used their DC proxies and Residential proxies. Resi proxies were having quite low success rate. We had to use resi solution from other proxy providers. Unblocker didn't work well either also it was way too expensive.

   🏁 Competitors: Decodo, NetNut.io

   👍 Pros:    Cheap dc proxies

   👎 Cons:    Quite expensive|Residential proxies are worse than competitiors

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Bright Data mentions (45)

• Precursor

  Happy to offer a counter of some great products for anti-bot defeat: https://brightdata.com/ https://www.zenrows.com/ https://www.capsolver.com/ https://scrapfly.io/ hundreds of millions of residential ips, human browser fingerprints, custom browser binaries, auto solve of turnstyle, recaptcha v3, kasada, datadome, AWS WAF, etc if they come up. - Source: Hacker News / 28 days ago

• Best Web Scraping Tools in 2026: A Hands-On Comparison of the Top 10

  The best web scraping tools 2026 leaderboard hasn't changed; the gap has narrowed. Bright Data remains the safest bet for any team that wants to spend time on the data, not on the scraping. The 660-scraper library, 400M-IP network, pay-per-success pricing and unlimited concurrency are still uncontested at the high end. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• The Economics of Web Scraping: How Consultancies Price Data Extraction and Manage Scope Creep

  Infrastructure Pass-Through (OpEx) Data extraction at scale is infrastructure-heavy. Bypassing modern Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) requires high-quality residential proxies, CAPTCHA solvers, and substantial browser-automation compute resources. Services like Bright Data charge significantly by the gigabyte for premium residential IPs. These variable infrastructure costs must be passed directly to the client,... - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• LinkedIn Scraping Is Dead: 5 Legal, ToS-Safe Alternatives That Actually Work in 2026

  Bright Data has successfully defended web scraping in U.S. Courts and offers LinkedIn datasets pre-collected and ready to download. LinkedIn profile data on their dataset marketplace runs around $250 per 100,000 records. The freshness caveat is real: bulk datasets are snapshots, not real-time. If you need current job titles on a rolling basis, you're better with an enrichment API than a one-time dataset pull.... - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• Building a Live AI Market Research Terminal: How Bright Data and Convex Replace Polling With Real-Time Everything

  Bright Data built an open-source demo that solves this. It's called the Signal Terminal, a financial research tool built around that problem. - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

Amazon CodeWhisperer mentions (39)

• What Active Rubyists Are Using in 2026: A Maintainer's Read of the RubyKaigi Survey

  Amazon Q Developer / Cline / Roo Code / Gemini / other: a few each. - Source: dev.to / about 2 months ago

• 🚀 Vibe Coding Mistakes (When Using AI Tools) and How to Avoid Them

  Amazon (2024) Amazon Q Developer [Software]. Available at: https://aws.amazon.com/q/developer/ (Accessed: 12 January 2025). - Source: dev.to / 9 months ago

• Love Cursor but Need Options? 7 AI Tools That Excel Where Cursor Doesn’t

  Amazon Q Developer fits a completely different niche. It’s not a general IDE like Cursor — it’s a cloud-native assistant built for AWS developers working on infrastructure and services. - Source: dev.to / 10 months ago

• Windsurf Not Cutting It? 7 AI Coding Tools That Raise the Bar

  Amazon Q Developer targets AWS-native teams. It provides code generation, refactoring, and cloud-aware automation within the AWS ecosystem. Its tight integration makes it valuable for teams deeply embedded in Amazon’s infrastructure. - Source: dev.to / 10 months ago

• Top Amazon Q Alternatives: Tools That Don’t Lock You In

  Amazon Q Developer is AWS’s generative coding assistant designed to help developers build and modernize applications on AWS infrastructure. It offers real-time code suggestions, helps with Java and .NET upgrades, and integrates directly with AWS services. You can ask it about architecture choices, cost optimization, or security best practices, and it’ll respond in the context of your cloud environment. - Source: dev.to / 10 months ago